From 2021 to 2024, I collaborated with different industries in Germany’s Black Forest—ranging from a metal chain producer to a brewery and cosmetics company and explored how the region’s entrepreneurial landscape brings new perspectives for international designers.

Collaboration between typographer Charlotte Rohde and regional clock tower manufacturer PERROT, globally known for the hour plates of the Mecca timepiece, in which they eagerly worked on reviving heritage techniques into contemporary timepieces.

The limited display of the sundial—it reads only from 9:00 to 17:00—aligns with the standard workday in Western society. This, in turn, emphasizes the manipulation of time based on social constructs. Permanently installed in Mühlacker, Pforzheim, and Nagold.

Curator: Willem Schenk
Designer: Charlotte Rohde
Project: ORNAMENTA 2024
Photographers: Sander van Wettum & Karolina Sobel

3. From Nine to Five, Public Sundials, by type designer Charlotte Rohde for clock tower producer PERROT GmbH & co. KG curated by Willem Schenk is developed especially on the occasion of Ornamenta 2024_Photo by Sander van Wettum HR.jpeg
2. From Nine to Five, Public Sundials, by type designer Charlotte Rohde for clock tower producer PERROT GmbH & co. KG curated by Willem Schenk is developed especially on the occasion of Ornamenta 2024_Photo by Sander van Wettum HR.jpeg

Photo by Karolina Sobel

Photo by Lonneke van der Palen design by Our Polite Society

Charlotte Rohde with cultural editor of Pforzheimer Zeitung Sandra Pfäfflin, photo by Karolina Sobel

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